October 13, 2009

Akhi, When I Hug You I Feel Something Hard and Long in Your Front Pocket ......

Followup to Howie's earlier post. Yet another internet jihadi going to jail. The ringleader of the Toronto 18 has pleaded guilty. His plot started in his mother's basement, grew through a ring of internet friends that connected him to al Qaeda's internet point man in London and wannabes in Atlanta, but soon led to meat world meetings with an akhi (brother) who turned out to be an informant.

He may get life in jail and now that he'd pleaded guilty will probably take the rest of the Canadian plotters down with him.

But here's the take away quote that Howie completely missed:

He became fast friends with the long-bearded stranger – the undercover informant – and greeted the spy with a hug.

“I feel something in his pocket,” Mubin Shaikh, the informer later testified, in a related case. “... I said ‘Brother, what is that I feel on you?'

That is a gun in my pocket, but that doesn't mean I'm also happy to see you, akhi!

Thanks to Ineternet Haganah.

RELATED: Internet key to both plotting terror and in catching those involved. Hey GIMFers, watch out for the cornhole buddies.

The catch 22 that is inherent in jihadi usage of the internet should be apparent to all. But it kind of reminds me of that Homer Simpson toast.

By Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. at 11:18 AM | |